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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1927 The House of Mystery the door leading down is | i Jealoi i Casts Its Ugly Shad Only the Unexpected Can Avei Tragedy. To Philippa and Ned, Jealous Young People of Thrilling Story, There Came ! denly a Peril Which They Face Together cr Perish. By Richard Atwood. Philippa Exeter, the handsome, well-built girl riding in the second rank of the cycling club on its way to Riverdown, flushed crimson at a fresh witticism. It was lucky, she thought Angrily, that it was too dark for her sudden color to be noticed As quietly as shs could she let herself drop back to the tail of the team. It was too bad, she told herself bitterly, of Kitty Claire. Just because Philippa and Ned Keither had been good friends, Kitty had been sudden-, ly moved to make them the subject of her jokes all day. Amusing to Kitty, perhaps. When she had suggested to the rest that Ned Keither, rather shy and nervous as he was, and the reserved Philippa were in love, things had become try-ins for them at once. vo had grown awkward ray, and halt, way through run had openly quarrelled, tho joy of the mischievous cellars locked. "But there was a light!" protested Philippa. And there have been people here lately. Look!" They inspected the stono kitchen in which they were standing. On a table were some dirty cups. In a cupboard were wood and paper, This and in a pail before the empty hearth Sud- was a good supply of coat. A kettle ad to stood in the grate. "Might almost say we've wandered into a house of ghosts," suggested Ned, cheerfully. Philippa shuddered. Intuition told her something was wrong about this mysterious house cf vanishing lights and unseen inhabitants. She didn't say anything to Ned, however. "Well," she remarked, "the best thing we can do is to make a Are. We shall be warm and dry then for the night. I don't believe In ghosts, any- TllQ catch the rest of :," she told the boy t had better be the ri ir you'll get hurt when After a few minutes, ullenly gave him the Apple Recipes Whit Ned i over the captives with his Philippa cycled off to the station. About forty minutes later, she returned with four policemen from Riverdown, telling them the tale on tho way. They handcuffed the prison- "Well, : it's .e back." I in September and October one i of their | often pick up apples for nothing _ little that it seems a sha unted guard not to add them t0 the winter-s s ply of appetizing food. Just a ! minutes spent in the kitchen in autumn will mean many pleasurable meals a little later. Sweet Pickled Apples Break into pieces a two-inch s of cinnaman and tie it in a cht forgers- . constable told Ned, wonder they were anxious! cloth bag i Bishop of Ripon "7 few minuter later found Philippa, ™° advocates closing of scientific with Ned's assistance, persuading a lab°"atories for the period of a de-rather reluctant fire to light up. .cade. Half-way through the task Philippa ~~. : spoke suddenly. Hls l>Ians "I say, Ned, I've been an awful pig ! utes suspense; then quiet footsteps to-day, and I'm sorry. It was really j Kitty Claire's fault, suggesting love and trying to make > well lad. Five min- i heard, and Ned in his g | caught sight of a man coming down a j the passage. both look fools. ... So that we tried ' the man put his key to the It and quarrelled j door' Ned bl"ought hIs roller down rich, dark complexion dld lta work effectively; the man she told him He mended the puncture in silence, except for an Icy "Thanks ' from the girl. They mounted and rode off af- catch them up," ventured ns the silence suddenly, y," Philippa told him more han ever. In the distance ? heard, and We must have taken the wrong turn The pair halted. It was the fact, ml things looked nasty. Charming bs was the countryside the club had rhosen lor ts week-end spin, it was de-tolate. They had not passed a soul. They took what seemed the most hopeful route, but another half-hour found them still far from anywhere. she spoke. Perhaps, though, it was just the reflection from the burning wood. "It wouldn't bo such a bad 'idea if we were," suppested Ned, hopefully. An amused light sparkled in Philip-pa's dark eyes as she carefully laid on another piece of coal. "It would make Kitty mad, anyway," she laughed. The fire was now burning cheerfully. "And now," suggested Ned, rising, "I've got an idea. I saw some rugs in one of the rooms upstairs. They'd be something to sleep on--better than stone, anyway. I'll go for them." A little later he returned with a-few rugs. There was hardly a luxurious supply of them, but Philippa, who always took her troubles cheerfully, laughed as Ned regarded his meagre findings ruefully. "Better than nothing at all events. I think I'll take my shoes off, anyway!!" remarked Philippa. "P'raps there are more," suggested Ned, optimistically. "I'll go for another prowl." He picked up his lamp, and once more. A few minutes i turning, he looked round the Philappa was gone! He flashed his lamp round the kitchen, and called her name. There Ned could hardly believe his eyes. What had happened to her? Her shoes were on the floor, still warm-- but the girl had vanished as completely as if the floor had opened up be- hoi ■ to, r the night!" suggested a was going to answer sai , but mutual misfortune ha he edge of the quarrel, lie sooner we get to one th say, it was decent of you t k to me. But I wish I hadn' "Loo! ) this doi here," Med told i light." fields, a good way off in the dark, a dim yellow light flickered. Ned dismounted, and made for a gap in the hedge. "Shelter Philippa pushed thi track towards the guiding light Farther off then had expected, house rose up against the night. ' he suggested. ,and the wet pair lines up a muddy only light pushed on up the dr before the front door, ed heavily. There was no reply to his repeated knocks. As he turned puzzled Philippa, who was at the foot of the Steps holding their machines, she exclaimed : t "Look! the light's gone out!" "P'raps they've just gone to bed," suggested Ned. "Well, round to the back we go. They can't refuse us.' • They made their way to the outl; lng wing at the back from where the light had come. They found the door. Ned knocked, and, getting no answer, tried the handle. After a moment's hesitation, '{hey stepped into a stone kitchen. ' Ned detached his lamp and put it He stood for a moment puzzled. An irie sensation crept over him. This forsaken house of lights that disappeared like ghosts--what strange and terrible things might not happen He pulled himself together, though, and set off, lamp in hand, to search the house. It was as empty as ever, Philippa answered his anxious calls. After wandering through the dark passages of the ramblng old mansion, he found his way back to the kitchen. Then, with a sudden idea, ho moved to the door. Might she be outside It was locked! Ned went pale for ; moment. Whoever for Philippa's disappearance termlned that he too should not leave the house. They were both trapped --far from help. At any rate, Ned decided, there was a human agency at work! Someone, unseen, was loose--perhaps dogging his footsteps! He glanced round for a weapon. On the cupboard door was a soiled towel n a roller. Ned detached the roller nd felt it critically. It would be of ome use against the mysterious marauders! Then Ned thought rapidly. There as only one place where they could have been hidden when the cyclists --in the cellars, below the barred door, and one, one of them e in the house, waiting to catch him unawares. For, while he touring the house, someone had returned to lock the kitchen door. Ned made his plans. He took off The I his shoes and stole noiselessly fell stunned. Ned dragged his pr enemy into the shadows, opened the door and went down a flight of stone steps. There was a patch of light at the foot of them Then, roller uplifted, Ned emerged cautiously into a big cellar. The enemy was not there. But in a corner sprawled Philippa. She had been tied up with rope and gagged by her captors. Ned ran across tho cellar and untied the gag. While he undid the ropes, Philippa explained in a rapid whisper. "There are three of them in the house. We've stumbled upon some secret, and they don't mean us to get out alive. I was taken by surprise from the back, gagged, and carried down here. Then, after giving me a few kicks, the beasts went off to get you too." "Well, there's one out of action," said Ned cheerfully. The crisis found buoyant, his nervousness gone. "We'll get the others now." Philippa rose to her feet a little cramped, but ready for action. She' tossed her black hair out of her eyes and glanced round for weapons. The cellar, lit by an oil-lamp, was practically vacant. A heap of loam lay in a corner, and some strange tools. As she was glancing round, a sound of footsteps was heard above. The other two wero coming down! Ned and Philippa, tense with u finding the house. They' -these are some of their n the floor. They fixed on 'ty house to use, and like fools gave themselves away by showing that light. If you two young people hadn't come across them like that, they might bo free men still. "I suppose you two will come along with us to the village. A bit comfortable than here, for the re the night. By the way, there' item of news, sir, that'll be of interest to you and your young lady. There' quite a biggish reward out for these men. Come in handy for getting married on." He winked at Ned. "I think you're about right," said Ned. But he said it as a question, and ho looked at Philippa as he spoke. "So do I," answered the girl, glancing downwards as she spoke. Sour Cream Some New and Attractive Ways to Add Zest to the Menu by the Use of Sour Crea/n To keep sour cream, pour into a clean glass bottle, cover and set in a cool place. In this way several days' remnants can be combined and used when needed. Bake slices of halibut In sour cream, r a delicious variation of the usual baked fish dish. Or use sour cream in place of milk in preparing white sauce for codfish. Potatoes mashed in hot sour cream have a fine texture and excellent flavor. Sour cream poured over to almost cover scalloped potatoes while baking makes a delectable dish. But cook sour cream too long or J it will curdle. In many couni Ir two or three tablespoons of freshly soured cream into soups just before serving them. Beef, chicken, tomato and beet soups are especially improved by it. Hot sour cream crouched in the shadows, wait-j seasoned with salt and a little celery ing to make a sudden spring. Un- seed and then poured over chicken luckily, Ned's roller was on the otfe«^rtpassee gives an indescribably good side of the celiar. But, as It was, tfJ^navor. Grated horseradish used ith 1 ispoonful each the back. They1 corner by the barred door. There, to the steps - with uplifted roller, he waited for the I Ned knock- raider to return. two intruders were taken suddenly by surprise. Ned flung himself on one with sudden jolt to the jaw that sent the rolling, while Philippa collared the other and brought him to the Taken unawares, the two raiders nevertheless fought desperately. Th$y were both beefy, beery individuals in very bad training; their opponents were both athletic young people. Ned was thin but wiry, and as his man staggered up he sent him reeling again with another uppercut to point. Philippa had scrambled on top of her fallen enemy, who was still makng frantic efforts to " against the wall, the cyclist's keen eyes noticed the man's hand go to his pocket. Like a flash he was on him, his sinewy hand on the other's wrist. Ned dragged out a revolver--and the fight was up. Ned didn't know how the revolver worked, but that didn't matter, for his enemy was unaware of it. His hands went up like clockwork. He stepped back, and by Ned's direction moved alongside his partner While the cyclist covered them with the revolver, Philippa tied up their hands- and feet with the cords they had used for her. Ned and Philippa dragged down the other man, who was still unconscious, anged him against the wall with the rest. Ned surveyed his three dejected id ruffianly prisoners. "Well," he told them cheerily, "the game's up now, you know. I'm going to get the police to take charge of favorite salad dressing in many households. Veal With Sour Cream Bone and cut short as many veal chops as are needed. Lard side. Have ready four tablespoons of butter, one cup of sour ere well-beaten egg yolk, salt, pepper and flour. Season the chops lightly with salt and pepper and dip the unlarded side in flour. Put the butter in the frying pan and when hot add the chops. Fry slowly, turning to brown evenly; this will take about twenty minutes. Place them in a pan, pour sour cream over them and bake slowly twenty minutes more. Just before serving, pour the sauce from the pan onto the beaten egg yolk, mixed with a little cream and serve on the Sour Cream Johnny Cake One cup of sour cream, one teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of salt, one-third cup of sugar, one egg, three-fourths cup flour and three-fourths cup of cornmeal. Beat the egg well. Add salt, sugar and flour and mix until very smooth. Add the sour cream and cornmeal. Dissolve the soda in a little boiling water and stir in the last thing before baking. Bake In a moderate dven twenty minutes. Serves six. This bread is delicious served with a luncheon of salad and cold meat, tea and Johnny cake being the hot dishes. . whole cloves and the whole allspice. Add 3 pounds of light brown sugar to 1 quart of vinegar; drop it in th spice bag and boil it for 15 minute: Peel, core and cut into quarters rather tart, well flavored apples, and simmer them, a few at a time, in the sydup, until they are almost done. If the fruit is not delicate pink in color, add a little beet juice to the syrup. Pack the apples carefully in hot, sterilized Jars and leave them in a hot oven while the sydup is being boiled down rapidly for about 10 minutes. Fill the hot jars with the syrup and seal. These are delicious served with pork. Apples for Pies and Sauce Fruit that cooks up into a mushy consistency is fine for apple sauce and pies. Thoroughly cooked without sugar and sealed securely in sterilized jars, the-apples keep well. Sugar may be added as needed, when it will probably be cheaper than during the canning season. Canning of this kind is easily done in the oven while other baking is going on. The rack from the broiler may be set on the bottom of the oven to keep the jars from getting too hot. The sauce may be partly cooked over the flame and finished by baking in apples may be put into the cans as they are prepared, covered with hot water and set into the oven. The juices boil up from beneath and cook the fruit, i done, fill each jar with either' boiling apple sauce or hot water, and seal as usual. Apples for Salads and Dumplings Apples that hold their shape when cooked are best for dumplings, sal-garnishing for roast pork. When to be.used for the two latter purposes, unpeeled, red-skinned ap-into halves give the prettiest effect, but care must he taken thoroughly to cook the skins. Baking is the surest means of keeping the the best cooks 1 plece,s ^broken As the fruit is pre-pared, drop each piece- Into scalding hot water and when there is enough for a pint can, pack the apph the hot sterilized jar, pour over them enough thin boiling sugar syrup cover, lay the sterilized cap on top and set the can in the hot oven. A little red vegetable coloring added to the syrup will make the fruit very attractive in a salad or as a garnish. When the apples may be pierced straw, fill the jars, adjust the rubbers and covers, and seal. Test for leaks and store in a dark place to preserve the color. Such apple cups on beds of lettuce, filled with chopped nuts or celery, with a dash of mayonnaise and a bit of currant jelly as a garnish, make a combination as delightful to Sunday School Lesson the t i as i all. 'John, I wish you'd bring me home 3 of those tobloids." "The kind you . .-atlier fancy, since you take with a glass of water?"" "No-anxious to keep some secret, j the kind you take with a grain of that they will be very interested. cn , table "Come on in," he said. "I'll go and find the people here, and tell them we Want shelter." Philippa brought in the machines, while Ned, taking a lamp, went off into the passage beyond. "Something funny, Philippa," he told her. "I've been over the house, and it's empty. No people--I called out on every floor--practically no tar-Eitare. ^een everywhere except the A Scene at Meadowhrook "A SAVE" ional Poo challenge cup match between the fci est in th United States. of the British Apple Butter Wash apples, core without peeling, it into pieces and cook with as lit-a water as possible until the fruit very soft. This may best be done the oven. Put the fruit through sieve, and to each 3 cupfuls of pulp allow 1 cupful of sugar, % teaspoon-ful of ground cinnamon and a pinch of ginger. Simmer down to the desired consistency, adding more or other suit the taste, if necessary. By taking every chance possible to cook hot pulp in the oven instead of over a direct flame one can prevent waste of considerable material and e. If a flame must be used, put asbestos sheet under the kettle, r the apple butter into sterilized ises or a stone crock and seal with melted paraffin. Sweet Apple Pickle Syrup from pickled peaches and pickled watermelon rind may bo used make delicious app^c pickle. Steam sweet apples until they can be pierced with a straw, add to the reheated syrup, bring to a boll anl seal in small sterilized jars. Apple Honey For variety, add to 2 quarts of the apple butter 1 cupful of honey. Heat ANALYSIS. I. the return of elijah, 1-19. II. the contest at carmel, 20-39. III. the sending of rain, 40-46. Introduction--The death of Solomon, and the revolt of Jeroboam, and consequent establishment of the northern kingdom of Israel, took place about B.C. 934. This kingdom included ten of the twelve tribes of Israel, and covered the whole of eastern Palestine and central and northern portions of western Palestine. It was much larger, richer and more populous than the kingdom of Judah, in which the descendants of David continued to reign. But its kings had not the advantage of the warm attachment and loyalty cf their people, as had the kings of Judah who inherited the great traditions of David and Solomon. The sanctuaries of Bethel and Dan, which Jeroboam furnished with images of Jehovah in the form of golden bulls, had an evil influence upon the minds- of the people, while at the temple in Jerusalem the worship of Jehovah remained comparatively pure and free from idolatry. Tho consistent testimony of the - :- that the kings of Israel - men. They "did evi; in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin." Omri, the father of Ahab, came to the throne, of Israel as the founder of dynasty about the year B.C. He appears to have been a strong and capable ruler, and left to son a prosperous kingdom, holding :reignty over Moab and having . peaceful relations with Judah and with the Phoenicians. Ahab married a Phoenician princess, Jezebel, a daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zid-s. This able and energetic wo-brought her god, the Eaal of Tyre, with her, and Ahab built a temple and an altar for this Baal in his capital city cf Samaria (16:30-33). The powerful patronage of the' queen, who gathered about her a largo number of priests and prophets of Baal, made this new form of worship popular. But it assumed the existence of many gods, and its practices were often grossly immoral, and therefore offensive to the prophets of Jehovah, who regardea the God of Israel as the one and only true God whom men should s>arve. 'Elijah, the man of Gilead, now appears as the champion of Jehovah against Baal. I. the return of elijah, 1-19. It was in the third year that Elijah returned. He had come suddenly from Gilead three years before, wearing his hairy mantle like an Arab of the wilderness (2 Kings 1:8), and had predicted years of drought, evidently as a punishment for the false worship of Baal. Then he fled from tha anger of Jezebel and her too pliant husband, taking refuge first in a valley in the wilder parts of Gilead, and later in a place on the sea coast, south of Sidon. He now returns to Israel at the call of his God, determined to meet the vacillating king and challenge him to make a bold decision for Jehovah against Baal. Jezebel had taken idvantage of the feeling aroused by Elijah's prediction and the suffering of the people from drought and famine to put the blame on the prophets of Jehovah and to persecute them. Obadiah, an officer of the king's household, had proved himself their friend. He is now the first to meet Elijah on his return. It was characteristic of Ahab and of the times in which he.-lived that he should have regarded the prophet, and not his own sin, as the troubler of Israel. II. the contest at carmel, 20-39. ' So Ah-ab sent unto all the children of Israel, and a great representative body of people came to Mount Car-mel. It was on some high part oi this long range, which strikes like a spur north-westward from the central mountain chain of western Palestine, and terminates in a bold promontory overlooking the sea, that tha altars of Baal and Jehovah were built. There Elijah called u^on the people to choose between the two. The. word "halt" (v. 21) means "go limping" like a lame man. He challenged them to take a firm stand, and invites the priests of Baal to call upon their god that he may send fire to consume their offering: And the God that answereth by fire let him be God. There is no room in the stern, uncompromising demand of the prophet for a mixing of two religions, a worship of two gods. He stands alone a champion for the true faith, and no doubt his failure would have rieant his death. The wild and savage rites of tho Baal worship are well described, slowly but do not boil after the honey ! 26-29. While Elijah mocked them the is added. Seal with paraffin. priests of Baal worked themselves into Apple Catsup ja freny of passion, gashing their flesh Wipe, core and quarter 16 large \ bUt cooking apples, cover them with water ' . fire ( , In marked contrast is the calm de-end simmer until they are well done, liberateness with which Elijah be-Rub through a sieve and to each 4 builds the altar and prepares for the cupfuls of pulp allow 2 teaspoonfuls ' sacrifice. He makes sure that no one "f white pepper, 1*4 cupfuls of sugar, can accuse him of deception by hav-teaspoonful each of mustard and all-, ^.^^fiSl^ *. d^™^ ^jf spice, 11/3 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, | measure referred to ii gar. Add to the apple pulp, bring Lord will vindicate his slowly to a boll and simmer until of true prophet, and will assert his own the right consistency, about I14 hours, j rightful authority as Israel's God, Seal while hot. jthat the heart of the people may be _ turned to him again. "Then the fire -*-- I of the Lord fell." Whether we at-. Health visitor (who, on a previous tempt to explain this as a flash of visit, had given a thermometer to an lightning, or otherwis. ;ouple in a stuffy cottage)--"1;^ hope you're not letting the red line i, above the 60 mark" Old John', no, miss, as soon as I finds i' climbing up too high I takes it to be understood here as a miracle of > power and an answer to the I prophet's prayer. The people are 1 convinced, and fall upon their faces : in fear and worship. hit in III. the sending of rain. 40-46. the garden and cools it down!" | The deed of blood which followed _ (Elijah's victoy cannot be justified . , „__ [from our Christian point of view, but idow (to daughter)--'When you it was characteristic of the people and my age it will be time enough to the times. And now the drought wa» 'cream of a husband." Daughter-- broken, and there was "abundance o} | 'Yes, mamma, for the second time." rain."